Japanese Internment During World War II
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RESOURCESRESOURCES WEB GLEANINGS By Judith S. Ames JAPANESE INTERNMENT DURING WORLD WAR II TITLE: JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM URL: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/janm/nrc/internfs.html Crowd bids bon voyage URL: http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/janm/nrc/internch.html to Poston residents who Two pages which give an overview and the dates and facts about the left August 24, 1943 for the Rivers Center, on the internment. The first page gives “Incarceration” facts. The second first lap of the journey to page is a “Chronology of World War II Incarceration.” Japan. RELOCATION CAMPS ESCRIPTION AND EMINISCENCES Photographer: Pauline Bates Brown D R http://www.library.arizona. ITLE IFE IN THE ELOCATION AMPS edu/images/jpamer/ T : L R C evacuees.html URL: http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/SJ/Nikkei/ RelocationCamps.html What life in the camps was like. The World Wide Web offers a large number of sites that deal exclu- sively with the internment of the Japanese during World War II, TITLE: CAMP HARMONY EXHIBIT including several sites that present original documents and pho- URL: http://weber.u.washington.edu/%7Emudrock/ALLEN/ Exhibit/index.html tographs of the camps. In recent years, there have been museum Housing, school, birth, marriage and other aspects of life during the exhibits, litigation and the publication of personal memoirs; these, four months at the Puyallup Assembly Center. too, appear on the WWW. TITLE: WRA CAMPS IN ARIZONA TITLE: DECISION TO EVACUATE THE JAPANESE FROM URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/jpamer/exhibit.html THE PACIFIC COAST Life in the two internment camps in Arizona. URL: http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/conn.html A narrative of the events and the recommendations that led to the decision to evacuate the Japanese. This chapter, written by Stetson PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS Conn for a book about the U.S. Army in WW II, presents a detailed TITLE: DOROTHEA LANGE look at the process and the rationale behind the evacuation decision. URL: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0013.html TITLE: HEART MOUNTAIN DIGITAL PRESERVATION PROJECT TITLE: INTERNMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO JAPANESE http://www.nwc.whecn.edu/Library/HMDP/Collections.htm URL: http://www.sfmuseum.org/war/evactxt.html Numerous links to articles published in the San Francisco News dur- TITLE: LIVING. PHOTOS FROM TULE LAKE ing 1942. The articles describe the FBI sweeps, the proclamations URL: http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/living.htm and orders, the good-byes as people leave for the camps. The lan- guage is often racist; it is noted on the page that “words and ideas TITLE: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS repugnant and appalling to us today are used, and discussed freely, URL: http://www.csuohio.edu/art_photos/gallery.html in the News’ columns.” TITLE: WAR RELOCATION AUTHORITY PHOTOGRAPHS URL: http://www.oac.cdlib.org:28008/dynaweb/ead/calher/jvac TITLE: RELOCATION OF JAPANESE AMERICANS URL: http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/Docments LINKS /wrapam.html SITES WITH LINKS TO DOCUMENTS The text of a pamphlet published by the War Relocation Authority, AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE INTERNMENT dated May 1943. The pamphlet describes the evacuation program TITLE: THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT and the relocation camps in addition to some comments on what will URL: http://www.oz.net/~cyu/internment/main.html be done with the property of the evacuees. An extensive list of links. TITLE: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT ON-LINE EXHIBIT TITLE: CLPEF NETWORK LINKS URL: http://scuish.scu.edu/SCU/Programs/Diversity/exhibit2.html URL: http://www.clpef.net/links.html This exhibit focuses on the internment of those from the Santa Clara This organization focuses on issues related to the wartime intern- Valley. It includes maps of the camps, photographic depictions of ment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. life in some of the camps, and other pertinent documents from the time. TITLE: JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMPS URL: http://www.umass.edu/history/internment.html Links from a K-12 Teachers’ Workshop in 1997 at the University of ITLE AR ELOCATION AMPS IN RIZONA T : W R C A Massachusetts. URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/wracamps/ The two camps in Arizona are described accompanied by pho- tographs. There is also a link to the Executive Order 9066 wherein Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the exclusion of “any and all” peo- JUDITH S. AMES, Ph.D., formerly associated with the Japan Society in ple from certain areas at the discretion and determination of the mili- New York, is the Coordinator of Customer Services of the Motley Fool, tary commanders. an on-line investment company. 47.